JANUARY 10th
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“My Dearest—It was with very great pleasure I see in your letter that you got safely down.”
Artist: John Wollaston. The Library Company of Philadelphia
From Martha Washington
Mount Vernon, 30 March 1767
My Dearest
It was with very great pleasure I see in your letter that you got safely down we are all very well at this time but it still [is?] rainney and wett I am sorry you will not be at home soon as I expected you I had reather my sister woud not come up so soon, as May woud be much plasenter time than April we wrote to you last post as I have nothing new to tell you I must conclude my self
your most Affcetionate*
Martha Washington
* The text is from a postscript attached to a letter from Lund Washington to his cousin George written approximately eight years before Washington was appointed commander of the Continental army. Martha Washington destroyed her correspondence with her husband after his death; the only other correspondence in existence between them are two letters that he penned (see, 7 & 9 January entries), a letter of introduction for James Brown addressed to Martha but never delivered, and the following note on a letter from her son, John Parke Custis to George Washington: “My love the silver cup I mentioned to you in my letter by the last post—Wt 113 ouz.” — FO2
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